It started with a late-night e-mail from a friend and fellow journalist: “Have you seen this?” I clicked on the link and got an article on what has become the latest scandal to send the New York publishing world into paroxysms: novelist Kaavya Viswanathan’s admitted theft of language and passages from another young-adult writer, Megan Read More
It started with a late-night e-mail from a friend and fellow journalist: “Have you seen this?” I clicked on the link and got an article on what has become the latest scandal to send the New York publishing world into paroxysms: novelist Kaavya Viswanathan’s admitted theft of language and passages from another young-adult writer, Megan Read More
For withdawing Kaavya Visnawathan’s book. The core principle here was, a theft. It’s great to see that the victim, Megan McCafferty, has prospered from the events and that Little, Brown has behaved so honorably. Its author, Visnawathan, has my sympathy. I hope she gets to keep her big advance and writes another book, truer Read More
I thought Kaavya Visnawathan was tough on the Today Show this morning. Katie Couric played the strict mother; she wanted her to break down like a good 19-year-old and admit she had copied straight from Megan McCafferty. When Visnawathan didn’t crack and said the dog ate my homework—yes she had read Megan’s books many Read More
If you want to know the facts about the Harvard plagiarism scandal, don’t go to the Times’ lame and protective coverage. The Harvard Crimson has thrashed the Times and all others on the Kaavya Viswanathan story.
Today the Times failed to include a key statement in the case the Crimson reported, Random Read More
